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I'm starting to collect some documentaries for my server but having a hard time finding torrents on the public sites. Is there a torrent site that specializes in documentaries?

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[–] American_Jesus@lemm.ee 0 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

YTS have a lot of documentaries, it's my go to for new documentaries

https://yts.mx/browse-movies/0/all/documentary/0/latest/0/all

[–] fitgse@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago

Have you considered your local library? A lot of them have an excellent dvd/blu-ray selection especially when it comes to documentaries.

I know it is a little more work but you also get a lot more control of how you rip it.

Also, in the US, many libraries give you free access to the Kanopy streaming service which has a lot of documentaries on it.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Consider non-torrent P2P platforms like eMule/eD2K. If you know what the name of you're looking for, there's a fair amount of obscure material to be downloaded that can be difficult to find otherwise.

eD2K is slow, but effective.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Is this similar to Soulseek or Napster/Kazaa in the old days?

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I believe that eD2K was the next P2P to gain wide popularity after those went down.

It's de-centralized, so unlike Napster/Kazaa, the feds can't take it down by seizing only one server, which they have tried.

[–] sk@hub.utsukta.org 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've heard good things about mvgroup.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 2 points 21 hours ago

https://forums.mvgroup.org/index.php is my go-to for documentary torrents.

[–] medi0crity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

its not torrents, and mainly german. but id be remiss not to mention https://dokujunkies.org/ maybe there is something, anything relevant on there. cheers and good luck!

[–] Braindead@programming.dev 2 points 22 hours ago

Not torrents, but this one https://documentaryheaven.com/ from https://fmhy.net looks promising